Healing? Please Help

[JgeorgeSCR]

Is it possible your stomach can feel a bit worse as you heel? Other symptoms seem to be improving? However, never had much D before diagnosis, now it seems more frequent? Maybe reacting to soy or vitamins? vitamins probably aren't doing much though if they aren't being absorbed right?

Also, Anyone else find it difficut to digest some gluten free food early on in the gluten-free Diet?

[Ursa Major]

Those special gluten-free foods are very hard to digest and are not recommended when starting the diet. And yes, you may be intolerant to soy as well, and it can certainly stop you from healing. Have you checked your vitamins for gluten? You may have to find out what the filler is, it might be wheat.

[missy'smom]

Many use a liquid or powdered multivitamin because they are more easily absorbed. For a while, sesame seeds, flax seeds and tomato seeds irritated my system and gave me D. Later on I was able to re-introduce them.

[Kritter]

As a matter of fact, I am having a very similar experience. I don't ever remember being as gassy or having as frequent D as I do now that I'm gluten free for two solid months. I am not happy that you are having this problem too, but I can say I'm a little bit relieved not to be the only one for whom this issue has worsened since going g.f.

I was wondering why things should be worse in the stomach/intestinal area and better in all other aspects. With the help of some great folks on this site we did a little trouble-shooting. You might be interested in what we tried, since perhaps some of these ideas could help you. At first we considered that my magnesium intake might be too high, and now that I'm absorbing nutrients better, that I should cut my magnesium down (that can cause "loose stools") Then I tried upping my calcium (this can cause the opposite - the big C - if you use Calcium Carbonate.) Both of those ideas were really good ones, but not particularily helpful in my case.

My Mom, who is a nurse (but not a celiac) thinks that the grains that we use to substitute for regular old white flour are quite a bit harder on my system. UrsaMajor seems to have the same viewpoint. Based on that, I'm going to try to cut grains way down in my diet (like only have them for breakfast, and then just eat fresh meat, fruit, vegies, nuts etc. the rest of the day.) I, for one, am hoping this helps. I certainly see a significant worsening in the D on days when I eat a ton of grains and nothing else.

Good luck to you! If you find something that helps, please let me know. I'll let you know how cutting down on the grains goes for me.

Kristin